Newsletter No. 58

CUHK NEWSLETTER ANNOUNCEMENTS Professorial Appointments Pr o f essor o f F i ne A r t s Dr. Mayching Kao has been appointed professor of fine arts from 1st August 1994. Prof. Kao graduated from The Chinese University with a BA degree in fine arts in 1967, obtained an MA degree from the University of New Mexico in 1969, and a PhD degree in oriental art history from Columbia University in 1972. After graduation, Prof. Kao joined The Chinese University as lecturer in art history and was promoted to senior lecturer rank in 1983. She has held a concurrent post of curator of the University's Art Gallery since 1981. Prof. Kao's major research interests are history of Chinese paintings, history of Japanese art, and Sino-Japanese and Sino-Western artistic exchanges. She also serves as member, trustee or honorary adviser of various art societies. Pr o f esso r, En g l i sh Language Teach i ng U n i t Prof. Lyle Farris Bachman has been appointed professor of the English Language Teaching Unit from 18th August 1994. Prof. Bachman studied English at Indiana University, USA and obtained his AB, MA and PhD degrees in 1965, 1969 and 1971 respectively. Prof. Bachman served as assistant professor of the Departments of English and English as a Second Language at the University of Hawaii in 1970. The following year he joined the Ford Foundation as project specialist and was assigned as adviser in psycholinguistics and evaluation to the Central Institute of English Language, Bankok, Thailand. He returned to the United States in 1976 to take up the post of assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was promoted to associate professor and professor in 1983 and 1989 respectively. Before joining The Chinese University, Prof. Bachman was professor of the Department of TESL and Applied Linguistics at the University of California at Los Angeles. Prof. Bachman is a member of the American Association for Applied Linguistics, the American Educational Research Association, and the International Language Test Association. Prof. Bachman is married, with two daughters. Pr o f essor o f Soc i al Wo r k Prof. Kenneth K. L. Chau has been appointed professor of social work from 20th August 1994. Prof. Kenneth K. L. Chau took his master of social work degree from McGill University in 1969 and his PhD degree from the University of Southern California in 1979. Born in Hong Kong, Prof. Chau started his career in social work in 1958 and had worked for both the Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. He joined the University of Hong Kong as lecturer in social work in 1972, and was promoted to senior lecturer in 1980. He moved to the States in 1984 and has since taught social work courses at California State University at Long Beach. Prof. Chau is amember of the editorial board of The Journal of Multicultural Social Work, and The Hong Kong Journal of Social Work. Prof. Chau is married, with two children. Professor o f An t h r o p o l o gy Dr. Chien Chiao will be appointed professor of anthropology from 1st October 1994. Prof. Chiao read anthropology at National Taiwan University and obtained his BA and MA degrees in 1958 and 1961 respectively. He then furthered his studies at Cornell University and was awarded a PhD degree in 1969. Prof. Chiao taught anthropology at Indiana University for seven years from 1966 and joined The Chinese University in 1973. He helped found the anthropology section w i t h in the Department of NO.58 SEPTEMBER 1994 5